Preface
The chapters included in this book give a kaleidoscopic selection of conceptual,
empirical, methodological, technical, case studies and research projects, which
implement the concepts of circular economy to the regeneration of the built environment. This means enhancing the understanding of sustainability to a broader
paradigm, developing a number of practices concerning energy, raw materials, waste,
health and society. In particular, a set of theoretical and methodological contributions
introduce the theme of the socio-economic development of territories, while the three
following sections deal with the challenge of closing the loops of the construction
sector—on the one hand, focusing at the larger scale of urban regeneration and, on the
other hand, deepening new ways of activating sustainable and resilient paths at the
level of the building materials’ production, and eventually foreseeing novel policies,
tools and organizational models of the building performances’ improvement through
the reusing, recycling, up-cycling and remanufacturing strategies, applied to the built
environment.
This book belongs to a series, which aims at emphasising the impact of the
multidisciplinary approach practised by ABC Department (Architecture, Built
Environment and Construction Engineering) scientists to face timely challenges in
the industry of the built environment. This book presents a structured vision of the
many possible approaches—within the field of architecture and civil engineering—
to the development of researches dealing with the processes of planning, design,
construction, management and transformation of the built environment. Each book
contains a selection of essays reporting researches and projects, developed during
the last six years within the ABC Department of Politecnico di Milano, concerning a
cutting-edge field in the international scenario of the construction sector. Following
the concept that innovation happens as different researches stimulate each other,
skills and integrate disciplines are brought together within the department, generating a diversity of theoretical and applied studies.
The papers have been selected on the basis of their capability to describe the
outputs and the potentialities of carried out researches, giving at the same time a
report on the reality and on the perspectives for the future. The cooperation of ABC
Department scientists with different institutional and governmental bodies (e.g.
v
The chapters included in this book give a kaleidoscopic selection of conceptual,
empirical, methodological, technical, case studies and research projects, which
implement the concepts of circular economy to the regeneration of the built environment. This means enhancing the understanding of sustainability to a broader
paradigm, developing a number of practices concerning energy, raw materials, waste,
health and society. In particular, a set of theoretical and methodological contributions
introduce the theme of the socio-economic development of territories, while the three
following sections deal with the challenge of closing the loops of the construction
sector—on the one hand, focusing at the larger scale of urban regeneration and, on the
other hand, deepening new ways of activating sustainable and resilient paths at the
level of the building materials’ production, and eventually foreseeing novel policies,
tools and organizational models of the building performances’ improvement through
the reusing, recycling, up-cycling and remanufacturing strategies, applied to the built
environment.
This book belongs to a series, which aims at emphasising the impact of the
multidisciplinary approach practised by ABC Department (Architecture, Built
Environment and Construction Engineering) scientists to face timely challenges in
the industry of the built environment. This book presents a structured vision of the
many possible approaches—within the field of architecture and civil engineering—
to the development of researches dealing with the processes of planning, design,
construction, management and transformation of the built environment. Each book
contains a selection of essays reporting researches and projects, developed during
the last six years within the ABC Department of Politecnico di Milano, concerning a
cutting-edge field in the international scenario of the construction sector. Following
the concept that innovation happens as different researches stimulate each other,
skills and integrate disciplines are brought together within the department, generating a diversity of theoretical and applied studies.
The papers have been selected on the basis of their capability to describe the
outputs and the potentialities of carried out researches, giving at the same time a
report on the reality and on the perspectives for the future. The cooperation of ABC
Department scientists with different institutional and governmental bodies (e.g.
v